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Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) is a class of algorithms in Reinforcement learning (RL), which tries to imitate an expert without taking any reward from the environment and does not provide expert behavior directly to the policy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Samin Yeasar Arnob

Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) methods, while effective in settings with limited expert demonstrations, are often considered unstable. These approaches typically decompose into two components: Density Ratio (DR) estimation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Shashank Reddy Chirra , Jayden Teoh , Praveen Paruchuri , Pradeep Varakantham

Imitation Learning (IL) algorithms offer an efficient way to train an agent by mimicking an expert's behavior without requiring a reward function. IL algorithms often necessitate access to state and action information from expert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Returaj Burnwal , Hriday Mehta , Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt , Balaraman Ravindran

Recent work has explored the problem of autonomous navigation by imitating a teacher and learning an end-to-end policy, which directly predicts controls from raw images. However, these approaches tend to be sensitive to mistakes by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Guohao Li , Matthias Müller , Vincent Casser , Neil Smith , Dominik L. Michels , Bernard Ghanem

Imitation learning (IL) has proven effective for enabling robots to acquire visuomotor skills through expert demonstrations. However, traditional IL methods are limited by their reliance on high-quality, often scarce, expert data, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Shuze Wang , Yunpeng Mei , Hongjie Cao , Yetian Yuan , Gang Wang , Jian Sun , Jie Chen

Imitation learning is an effective tool for robotic learning tasks where specifying a reinforcement learning (RL) reward is not feasible or where the exploration problem is particularly difficult. Imitation, typically behavior cloning or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Yuxiang Zhou , Yusuf Aytar , Konstantinos Bousmalis

Adversarial imitation learning (AIL) has become a popular alternative to supervised imitation learning that reduces the distribution shift suffered by the latter. However, AIL requires effective exploration during an online reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Trevor Ablett , Bryan Chan , Jonathan Kelly

We focus on offline imitation learning (IL), which aims to mimic an expert's behavior using demonstrations without any interaction with the environment. One of the main challenges in offline IL is the limited support of expert…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Huy Hoang , Tien Mai , Pradeep Varakantham

Imitation Learning (IL) is a machine learning approach to learn a policy from a dataset of demonstrations. IL can be useful to kick-start learning before applying reinforcement learning (RL) but it can also be useful on its own, e.g. to…

When faced with accomplishing a task, human experts exhibit intentional behavior. Their unique intents shape their plans and decisions, resulting in experts demonstrating diverse behaviors to accomplish the same task. Due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Sangwon Seo , Vaibhav Unhelkar

This work studies the alignment of large language models with preference data from an imitation learning perspective. We establish a close theoretical connection between reinforcement learning from human feedback RLHF and imitation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Teng Xiao , Yige Yuan , Mingxiao Li , Zhengyu Chen , Vasant G Honavar

Humans are capable of learning a new behavior by observing others perform the skill. Robots can also implement this by imitation learning. Furthermore, if with external guidance, humans will master the new behavior more efficiently. So how…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Boyi Liu , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu , Cheng-Zhong Xu

Imitation learning (IL) aims to learn an optimal policy from demonstrations. However, such demonstrations are often imperfect since collecting optimal ones is costly. To effectively learn from imperfect demonstrations, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Yueh-Hua Wu , Nontawat Charoenphakdee , Han Bao , Voot Tangkaratt , Masashi Sugiyama

Two current methods used to train autonomous cars are reinforcement learning and imitation learning. This research develops a new learning methodology and systematic approach in both a simulated and a smaller real world environment by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Heidi Lu

Learning motor skills for sports or performance driving is often done with professional instruction from expert human teachers, whose availability is limited. Our goal is to enable automated teaching via a learned model that interacts with…

Learning-based approaches, such as reinforcement learning (RL) and imitation learning (IL), have indicated superiority over rule-based approaches in complex urban autonomous driving environments, showing great potential to make intelligent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Haochen Liu , Zhiyu Huang , Jingda Wu , Chen Lv

Imitation Learning (IL), also referred to as Learning from Demonstration (LfD), holds significant promise for capturing expert motor skills through efficient imitation, facilitating adept navigation of complex scenarios. A persistent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Yingbai Hu , Fares J. Abu-Dakka , Fei Chen , Xiao Luo , Zheng Li , Alois Knoll , Weiping Ding

Imitation learning (IL) has proven to be an effective method for learning good policies from expert demonstrations. Adversarial imitation learning (AIL), a subset of IL methods, is particularly promising, but its theoretical foundation in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Tian Xu , Ziniu Li , Yang Yu , Zhi-Quan Luo

Conditional imitation learning (CIL) trains deep neural networks, in an end-to-end manner, to mimic human driving. This approach has demonstrated suitable vehicle control when following roads, avoiding obstacles, or taking specific turns at…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Hesham M. Eraqi , Mohamed N. Moustafa , Jens Honer

We present a large-scale study of imitating human demonstrations on tasks that require a virtual robot to search for objects in new environments -- (1) ObjectGoal Navigation (e.g. 'find & go to a chair') and (2) Pick&Place (e.g. 'find mug,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Ram Ramrakhya , Eric Undersander , Dhruv Batra , Abhishek Das
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